Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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sports sense |and nonsense 1 I , By I J FRANK H. HEATH .. w0ndering what Nettles and BPI catcher aud plteher for the Kfl'had to ?uy whe" they turu J'; (hat Junior Legion game at i ,tt< and found that they had not HJniWd in the Wolve-Ksso tilt, a IL goody and we did it without r ,,,! Clarkaon," yelled a aweet Wl , damsel in white ahorta. Pe Htm ilr-C'6-e-e we iiave to hand it JJlggme young blade, Basil Bruce, jug into llhame'a shoes ana !, a swell Job of pitching. And ted paver hurled a bafl over the ?jua .similar capacity before. Yea v^,, it sure was some'feat old ? I percy Maya was plumb disgusted ^ S Clurkson rapped that homer ^ ll the seventh. ? ? ? ? id the chap who was the' most Ejexed was Hubert Wilson of the Saots, for the victory put the Ktes hack in a tie with his team. bo and Jack Villepigue staged a Bji father ami son act on second abort. And the laddie sure hit bill well. * * * hers who worked in the short field the Kbso boys had a busy after g with the willow, getting two erg, a double and a single in four ? Bobble Khame is the ball player in Bfthame family and can he swat Hippie. A homer and a nice single a double in four times up. B * * ? rl Light foot returned to the fold week, bringing with him a brothBvbo Is to spend several days look orer Camden. B Br! cauie back eager to get back baseball shoes. "Oklahoma Is Biwell state but gosh, how I missed Softball,"'isaid Carl, who Is the capi lain of the Uedfeuru Motors. Aijd with Carl back, you'll Hee those Motors piq. on Home swell play from now on. ? Well, the pa?t week has witnessed some real worm turning. Washington's wallowing Senators have been breezing along In n nice winning streak; Pittsburgh's pathetic Pirates recently took several of the leaders into camp and are plodding along for (third place in the National league. ; And Clney's collapsible Reds only re' cently made the high-uud-mighty Cubs i holler, "Uncle." Hut the championship of the worm turning society and for the plush bath I tub for the classiest upset of the ap| pie cart goes to tltpse hoys of Connie i Mack, that collegiate collection of athletics. Every other team in the American league falls apart when one mentions the Yanks. Hut Connie Muck's staggering crew, away down in the league cellai1, looked those Yanks In the eye and smeared them three In a rqw. If there is one manager In the majors 1 fe?Jl sorry for it is Hurleigh Grimes, Dodger mentor. Hurleigh has a front office that can make more errors In one day than the team will in a season. Latest of the brainstorms j from the front office was to import Jake Daniels, a 25-year-old first Backer who hit 247 in the International last year and wasn't batting any better in the New York-Pcnnsy league when culled in. Buddy Hassett is one of the best first suckers in the National, but that didn't matter to the front office. Oh no. The front office board of strategy brings in Daniels who couldn't make good In Class A, sticks him on first base and shifts Hassett to the outfield. That Is Brooklyn logic and we know why Grimes is getting grey hair faster than ever. ke condition of spring wheat in Ida is reported to be the poorest 0 years, the July 31 condition begiven pt 36 per cent of the long* 1 average yield per acre, as com* jd with a condition report of 51 cent on June 30. , TAX NOTICE he books for the collection of e, County and School Taxes for, fiscal year commencing January | will be open from September j 0 December 31, 1937, inclusive out penalty. No discount will be red for early payment. When hs inquiries about taxes, be sure ate the District Number in which live or own property. re total tax levy fbr the various 01 districts are as follows: DeKalb Township Mills riot No. 1 46 rict No. 2 .. .. .. - 37^4 lict No. 4 . 39% let No. 6 41% rlct No. 25 .25% let No. 43 # . .. 25% Buffalo Township Mills, let No. 3 39% fct No. 5 .23% kt No. 7 25% let No. 15 23% kt No. 20 .. ..' 29% let No. 22 41% fct No. 23 29% (ct No. 27 34% kt No. 28 -. . rt- r.--.7-r. . . 25% ict No. 31 81% kt No. 40 43% let No. 42 23% Flat Rock Township Mills kt No. 8 34% kt No. 9 . 34% kt No. 10 -27%: let No. 13 26% kt No. 19 34% fct No. 30 .'! 28% kt No. 33 34% let No. 37 34% kt No. 41 34% kt No. 46 .. . . X 29% kt No. 47 . . . 23% Wateree Township Mills kt No. 11 . . 28% kt No. 12 37 fct No. 16 ;.. ..26 kt No. 29 29% kt No. 38 23% kt No. 39 28% Respectfully yours, C. J. OUTLAW, Treasurer Kershaw County, 8. C. CITATION ' ~ The State of South Carolina, County of Kershaw. By N. C. Arnett, Probate Judge: - Whereas Lucinda Beattie made suit ,to me to grant to her Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of William Fortune. These are therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said William Fortune^ deceased, that they he and appear before me| in the Court of Probate, to be held at Camden, S. C., on Tuesday, September 7 next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 23rd day of August, Anno Domini, 1937. N. C. ARNETT, Judge of Probate for Kershaw County. ?????i I SAVE ON YOUR TAXES j The City Clerk and Treasurer of Camden it au- ] I ^or>zed to notify taxpayers that if their taxes are paid j during the month of September, that a discount of ? -? i I * Per cent will be allowed. After that date the taxes 1 I he for the full amount. It is an opportunity to | I | Ve? ?o why not come in during September? I I J.C.BOYKIN, CITY CLERK AND TREASURER. H. v > * * * " # 1 j ^ 17 Softball Games (By The Skipper) Merchants Swamp Professionals Hubert Wilson's Merchant gang scuttled the good ship Funderburk last Thursday afternoon, the score being 18 to 4. But for a wee bit of cock| iness by Jakie Haynes in the first inning when he fed the Pros some easy ' shoots, the count might have been a whitewash comedy affair. But Jake was too easy with the gents from the professional ranks and beforp he could collect himself, they had mixed a double, two singles, a walk and an error for four runs. The Merchants, nettled '.at the nerve ! of the lowly Pros tried to regaiu the | respect of the fans in the last of the first but fell shy one score of evening the count. And the battle vent on that way for three innings. In the fourth the. baloon went up. Five hits, ttfo errors and a walk gave the Merchants eight runs. They added five in the fifth and two more in the sixths In the meantime Haynes had settled down and had the Pros helpless. The game was played on a fairly i fast diamond but the outfield was slippery after the hard rain that fell at 3:45 o'clock. Grudge Game Rained Out The grudge game, postponed from way back when, between the Merchants and the Wolves started out at 3:30 Thursday evening under a scorching sun but Just as the third inning was under way, _ the storm which had been gathering in the south !Xwh?hU wltl? wind and tatorJ. <au*?d Payers aud Bpecwah nr V' r.UlI /or Bho,l*r- After a minutes the bureau of reeC""WJ 6ir Xl,e "cthe 1 u'? a"?rnoou between off wl ? o!" w?? al?? 'ailed mi wntn the ruin continued to full at thelM?rUh lho tb,rd ^ttlue. between the Merchanta aud the Proa was play. wW|h.%M.n.UhU,H^"y Wa" " "'"I" esK&rJ^SH first I, , Hu" 1,0P Nettles at went a round 1 1,un|I?* McDowell Imi ?i? . to ,h,rd With one down ?rfe~'?.^S bailiwick in th?e rutt,ed out of the 3" "Suf K"' 'r "Wb" W"i w3 tocv"rih"0a?-?-la;ru^'^ hUStlSDK irid r,In,^CB ?<>? ???.X capl,all?t8 to take "tLT.'i?' ?' the the Eaao gang. Baal? e??V/ ."h" aTha?tf JK& X'ft b? J ?hlUtontinr??ty0P0Ut Up a ,da"X VtUeplgue wT .?? ?d' en was on Thlri? f? on . rne8t Woolfield. Brothers' I? lett ^.1? 6h<i" they^o^o? 'a "g"?"< 'h0ne"18rUD?econ<l, "Xo^ >Z then The" Sox^ staged ^a^rul ly7, 3't Aad I eevea home ?* a rally? a, put and X77he IX. 8 '? '"r,h . enth runner home l', "the flfth" tlfv K^uVme' '^Xir.'n X the count n",ng and tled "P ?'^CerfLs'knegddtorkhaav"ed,h8e0me ?f 3n3edheB'iSa'JtsC|'rd,lb00e<1 the ld"a first of the slxffi eentWued. I? the tewlfth run an J V? ,Sox put a Wolves who went So bad ,ur the ,hw tlr. X'-Wtb" ^airS?158 s^s^rr "Ssby Hhttnie hh gafl '7 Wolves. BobNettles singled uZ a Ul when 1,1 "y I Then catne S 'ci?riffi 6 WH8 t,edusty poke he 8lammiS?n anti w,th a that spelled victor ?U the homer Wm5 Vns" and 77" cuckoo and the dance for th" Wwo?" 8tag6d a war to a tie with i , 7 restored them cured some We m7ahant8 and ??when these two toi pastlmlng and Thursday " met Tu<"<day Motors Nose Out Proa Issue waBiUlngdoub?',utmlll?heWlhlC,h 'he was out in tho I last man Motors no1snedthoeut8etVheemphro1snnin0g',oth9<!: evenlngW Pt league fracaa Monday rSTirH afternoon was a hnm reature ot -the Lambert DePass wiT? rUn madeby path. ? men ?n the scormgga,rtheenflerd,W',lh nelther 'e?m wThixSf^a< scores 7X77.,''? and posted three dangerous In the afthwh ""7 WaXed cantered in tw when five runs brought them to 7,?h7n the slxth he leaders^Xe/t'Z" LrTZ tS bes, thefcomd" dohew3rr?ntpnsbhUVah?e lets to second base where he d?ed fpn_^a'vaa ^Ipaet Dope Bucket The tea kettles on the kitrhan stoves were singing; street lights had ?"hed ',n'? hrllliance In thl mnfu ness of the early evening, cars w?r? Bitting down the boulevards with headlamps turned on the Xl ?, ,hb n".^\r: 'red "k8 wSJta tf?poh.L ? at mWni?ht? but the ^erohants and Wolv^a still played .f1? a f?1?6 that went into the shades the l,ght tbe Wolves upset Merchants *"? waUo^ the nis, that wonder team n# ^nd,hff' by a. score of 9 tox3. The ribe of ivilson literally bogged down a M'PPery. wet diamond and pulled ?ore boners of omission and commbu lion than they have registered all seailJaalfeT?6 ,?f. the year aUraeted a the sidelines unm Wab.?gge7alpi?riS2 Sa bw,k,a tblrd ,raa?c ?hi9 aa the def3n,inof1Se'l^ f^?,*> iat^' lT that Msrchanu so badaormaL * ? * ^mck to >/^$eeHa^L?,>I>0!?e<l ?n ^ noond o Haynes an4 while both ^>4. At the End of an English Sylvan Path. Prepared by the National Geographic Society, V\ nehlngton, D. C. ? WNU Service. IF AN\i(Mi wants to know the English countryside, let him go house hunting. On such a quest he will discover Nature's cozy-corners that casuals never find. They are everywhere, hut ns ingeniously concealed as u bird's nest. There may even be a sign whh'h says, "Dangerous narrow road. Enter at our own risk." Hut that is Just the kind of place to Insist upon penetrating. Enter on foot if you are afraid, but the car can squeeze In. You find yourself In one of those incomparable roads like tunnels of living green. Earthen hanks of Ivy and wild flowers rise ten feet high to be topped by tall trees sprung from the original hedge planted a hundred years ago. The road keeps you guessing by making such curves that there is no penetrating the secret of what lies ahead. All at once n gate. Within, a hit of woodland, flower-brightened; beyond that, a sunny garden, moldy mossy walls, lattice windows, creepers nil * abloom and reaching to the roof tiles, which are toned from dull red to gentle green by two centuries of soft rains and sun. Who would not penetrnte the wood to guze closer?especially when armed with a handful of permits from a real estate firm? You pass through the bit of flowered woodland gay with yellow primrose patches and massed bluebells. But on emerging from the screening trees and seeing the open garden lying in the si and the house forming a part of it, you gasp and halt. This is the house of your dreams. A servant appears and explains that th? house is to-be-let and Is at your service; the lease Is for sixty-five years] Exclamation marks rattle about In your head. You stagger away, feelLJng a kinship with Adam and_ Eve, Peculiar. Rental Customs. I You select another house which you consider a perfect gem, only to be "told that it Is not available for "Instant possession." -The present tenant has the place for four years longer. These, and other Interesting rental customs you may learn In English real-estate offices. ' Mayfair Is full of fascinating real-estate offices, most of them seeming like private homes, with their open fires, Chippendale chairs, and bookcase desks, "Mr. Upperton and Partners" is the diverting and reticent sign over the door of one of these. Lovely way of expressing it; Upperton, Stoggs, Chair and Jones is outdone by the dignity of "and Partners." Any. of these gentlemen can teach the eager American client new uses of English words and phrases In real - estate Jargon, whether or not he offer? the Ideal ancient house and rt mantle garden. And It is here that ycu learn that the rent of unfurnished houses Is denoted In pounds sterling, while tho finished house smartly demands guineas?an extra shilling on each pound. You also learn that company's water "laid on"- merely means that domestic water flows from taps Instead of being pumped np from well or cistern. Indeed, one must not visibly shudder to1 learn that for 200 years houses have ^ been occupied by gentry, modern smart people among them, who have had no t running water, no lights except kero. aene lamps, np telephones. Incredible! Without the tireless English servant! ' the English gentry must have died out fof lack of comforts. One of the Partners may ask you strange-sounding questions. !"? "Are? you prepared to buy dllapida lions?" ^ ThaL-Js disconcerting. ^'But I dont want s bouse that Is actually te a state of decay." The Partner patiently ex plaint that any eort of damage or breakage must bo restored by the tenant Tour bill for dilapidations may ba onjy four bulla* about oaa dollar, for a flower bolder. Bat It often happene that one rat aarome tbe dilapidation* of tbe - 'i r >. ' 4 previous tennnt, which may Include repairs and decorations of Importance. So it Is a word to excite suspicion. Kent days are not the prosaic llrst of the month. They come four times u year. Their names are full of suggestion:. Lady day, Midsummer, Mlchuelmns, Christmas. It makes a romantic pleasure of paying rent. Hunting a Country House. The hunt for the Ideal takes on the aspect of a tour. It Is possible to get about by commodious omnibuses. They set you down on the main roads, where local motor cars with drivers can be hired. Gradually you come to know the districts not too far from London where certuln types of the Ideal house have sprung from the soil, it Is a requisite of the Ideal English sinull house that it should look as If It had pushed Itself up from Nature's laboratory of the earth, just as the shrubs, flowers, and trees have done. They are close kin. They all live together in harmony and beauty. Districts not too far from London contuln an entrancing variety of old styles. The house of Carved Interiors and scrolled gables is a specialty of Kent; the thatched roof hides beside the roads of Hampshire's New Forest; the cottage of light-gray stone makes glad the villages of the Cotswolds; and the Georglah, or rather Eighteenthcentury houses, scatter their elegant lines in all parts of the land. Timber and plaster houses tempt one almost everywhere with their Tudor charm. West of Southampton lies the witching wood of the New Forest, where .fine leafage piles delicately up and up against the sky, and where the road sllpq softly Into mossy turf of green, sun-spangled. Out in the sunny tangle of open lands the wild forest ponies roam free amid gorse and broom and heather. Farther along, where the -road strikes the edge of the wood, stand ideal cottages with thatched roofs. The windows of the second story are veritable eyes which kindly contemplate. The casement of. one is thrown back and the rosy face of a girl laughs with pretty boldness. This Is a country of thatch. More cottages watch by the roadside. Some are inns, but are so elegantly kept that only a lover of the picturesque, a potential artist, would be living there. You come to one of the richest of vtll districts for those who hunt the ideal house when you arrive at the hills of the Cotswolds. Gradually its little stone houses catch you In the spell of their beauty. They spread themselves beside the road, taking on almost human qualities. They lift thelfr gables with dignity; they spread their mulliened windows with frankness. Their symmetry seems of the highest art, yet 1t is said these lovely houses were built by simple artisans. They took the warm, light ston^ of the land, and even the/ roof tiles are made of itl All seems a pearly gray, and on this Ideal color climb the bright flowers of the garden. * " Many Enticing Places. You linger long and drift from road to lane, from village to farm, drinking In every detail of these houses?the Tudor ornament over the leaded windows, the lovely flat arch of the front "door, the beauties of the back of the house, the flowers and a conning ufce of shrubs and creepers piling one thrilling beauty upon another against the light-gray stone. I In Sussex and Kent, hunt out the old farms and the ancient houses of | villages. They have a beauty al^ .their . "Own, with their bricks turned to pink and softened brown. Many have~an end gable of stone fashioned in the grand curves which fascinatingly recall the Walloons who brought with th^m their own tradition* of art when driven to England by religious persecutions Thoae curvilinear gables have, too, Spanish flavor, a late Renaissance c*p*r of freo4rawn cm* Faeclnat ?at Interior* thoa* Walloon cloth wearer* constructed to sake the nomas of th.lt **U?* with thorn tha, h*4 aft . V ^ \ ' ?V i' V ' " v - Mcdonald dies in chair for murder of young boy < olumbia, Auk. 20.?- Furinuu McDonald, filghlout'd and mumbling u lust minute attempt io Implicate oth era in tlio murder for which ho was iondctniu'd. died in thn state penitentiary eieettic cluilr toduy while tho father of the hoy he killed looked on "They've not tho whole thing placed over on mo and they are on the outaide laughing at me," tho 46 your-old World war veteran aaid as ho sat strapped in the chair a few suconda before the lethal current HnufTod out his life. ftk Almost im orhoiV'ttfl* he mumbled the numes of thosX lUp-lRld -got me into it." H. 11. Thompson, SrTL/fctJter of- the lJ-.yeur-old boy, II ll., Jrjt^for whoso shotgun slaying in September, 11)36, McDonald was convicted in PiUrtlold county Htooil in a corner of tho small deathhouse with a grim expression as the sentence was executed. ^ "I feel more satisfied new, I be Ueve," Thompson said as ho -Walked from the prison enclosure. Witnesses at the trial said McDonald smashed Into the Thompson homo after midnight and boat the elder I hompson into unconsciousness with the butt of Ids shotgun before turning on the boy, who camo in to boo what was happening. They said McDonald fired two loads of shot into tho lad's body. McDonald pleaded Ineaulty. An appeal to the state supreme court also was unsuccessful. , ^ SherlfT E. K. Rabb, of Fairfield county, who attended tho execution with several Fairfield citizens, said he did not hear McDonald's attempted implication of others. Ho Buid ho did not contemplate any further investigation of tho case. N\ Itnesses suid the condemned man was uppurently naming kinsmon of Thompson in his last statement. They told nio to shoot Mr. Thomiy son," ho said. "Who told you to shoot Mr. Thompson?" Captain Olin Sandors of the prison guard asked. McDonald mumbled tho names again, his voice trailing off In a moan. McDonald's sanity was in question until tho last. a phychlatrlst from the state hospital observed his loot minutes In his cell and took notes on his lust statement. Specialists Investigated tho man's mental condition under orders from Governor Olin Johnston who had been petitioned to commute tho man's sentence to life imprisonment. McDonald set up a moaning cry when guards brought him almost bodly from his cell to the nearby death chamber. He criqd out several times as he was placed in the chair and as straps were blng placed about his head and body. The Rev. 8. F Phllllpe, prn.cn chap, lain, said McDonald had refused religious solace although he talked to him several times since his transfer to the penitentiary. "I quit trusting anybody but my mother," Phillips quoted him as eaying. ?^fh Phillips in bis last talk with the condemned man was the Rev. M. E. Derrick, of McCorraick, pastor of two of McDonald's sisters. Captain Sanders read the death warrant to McDonald at 5:45, It Wat} necessary to arouse McDonald from his ^cot before the warrant was read. He neither looked at the officers or made any reply. Three minutes and 60 seconds after state electrician Sam Cannon threw the switch which sent 15 amperes of electricity at 2,300 volts through his body, McDonald was pronounced dead hy Dr. L. H. JenningH, prison physiclan. . whole thing was ever by 6:16 a. m. McDonald's electrocution was the second this year at the state prison. The last white men executed were Sam Anderson and Sam Powell, Anderson cousins, who died Depember 11 for the slaying of a taxi driver. _ > Seven-Foot Snake la Killed Allendale, Aug. 14.?Edgar T. Sales engineer with the Tidewater Construction company reported Wednesday that five members of the state highway crew had killed Monday k coachwhip snako which measured seven and a half feet. The snake was kilted In the river swamps where the men are engaged In earth-work for the approaches to the Burton's Ferry bridge. Mr. Sales said that the snake crawled .Tip In the station wagon in an attempt to got away was kllle^ In the car with a shovel after It had been surrounded by Ave men. More than 100 rattlesnakes have been killed In the sw&mpp by the workmen since they started wotk there several months ago. Bince Barton, nationally known advertising executive and writer, is mentioned as the probable Rspnldifn rK ^twth*